Statutory Instrument 1994 No. 94

The Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

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1994 No. 94

AGRICULTURE

The Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State, being Ministers designated^[1] for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972^[2] in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Economic Community, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by the said section 2(2) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Title, extent and commencement
    1.    These Regulations may be cited as the Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) (Amendment) Regulations 1994, shall apply to Great Britain, and shall come into force on 22nd January 1994.

Amendment of the Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) Regulations 1993
    2.    The Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) Regulations 1993^[3] shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 5 below.

    3.    In regulation 3 thereof (compensatory allowances)—
 (a) in paragraph (3)(b)(i) there shall be substituted for the words "is available" the words "appears to the appropriate Minister to have been available"; and
 (b) in paragraph (4)(b)(ii) there shall be substituted for the words "is available" the words "the appropriate Minister is satisfied was available".

    4.    In regulation 9 thereof (release from undertaking) there shall be substituted for the words "shall be released" the words "is released".

    5.    In regulation 10(1) thereof (withholding or recovery of compensatory allowance) there shall be substituted for the words "which has not been released in accordance with regulation 9" the words "from which he has not been released by virtue of regulation 9".

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on
20th January 1994.


Gillian Shephard

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food


Hector Monro

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

19th January 1994

These Regulations further amend the Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) Regulations 1993, as amended ("the principal Regulations"), which comply with Council Directive 75/268/EEC on mountain and hill farming and farming in certain less-favoured areas (OJ No. L128, 19.5.75, p.1), as amended by Council Directive No.80/666/EEC (OJ No. L180, 14.7.80, p.34), and with Articles 17 to 19 of Council Regulation (EEC) No.2328/91 on improving the efficiency of agricultural structures (OJ No. L218, 6.8.91, p.1), as amended by Council Regulation (EEC) No.870/93 (OJ No. L91, 15.4.93, p.10). Those Regulations also make provision for the administration and enforcement of provisions for payment of compensatory allowances contained in Commission Regulation (EEC) No.3887/92 laying down detailed rules for applying the integrated administration and control system for certain Community aid schemes (OJ No. L391, 31.12.92, p.36).

These Regulations make two corrections to the drafting of regulation 3(3) and (4) of the principal Regulations relating to payment of compensatory allowances (regulation 3).

These Regulations also make minor drafting amendments to regulations 9 and 10 of the principal Regulations relating to release from the undertaking referred to in regulation 3(2) of those Regulations and to withholding or recovery of compensatory allowances (regulations 4 and 5).

[1] S.I. 1972/1811. back

[2] 1972 c. 68. back

[3] S.I. 1993/2631, amended by S.I. 1993/2924. back